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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Jonze

The worst album sleeves of all time - in pictures

Album sleeves: The Faith Tones, Jesus Use Me
The Faith Tones regularly appear on 'worst album sleeves' lists with Jesus Use Me. Must be the dodgy typeface Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Accept, Balls to the Wall
Accept's Balls to the Wall – the ball in question here is clearly a metaphor, representing the band's fondness for cricket Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Zuma, Neil Young
Neil Young's Zuma was released in 1975 and he's still only just quit drugs Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Def Leppard, On Through the Night
Cool tour bus Def Leppard! Did you get it from the same place you got your clip art? Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Kevin Rowland, My Beauty
The most shocking thing about Kevin Rowland's My Beauty is that the resulting album was actually very good indeed Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Maters of State, Our Constant Concern
Mates of State's sleeve for Our Constant Concern is the worst kind of bad – there aren't even any naked people to laugh at Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera used this sleeve after it was passed over by Belle and Sebastian Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Roy Harper, Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion
Roy Harper's Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion. At least the picture fits the title Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: The Band, High on the Hog
It must have been great for the Band to use that fluorescent 3D font and think: 'This is in no way the worst thing about our album sleeve' Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Scorpions, Love Drive
Everyone can relate to that moment when you try and store chewing gum somewhere and before you know it it's all over a woman's breast in the back of a car Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: The Beatles, White Album
Ooh, Guardian readers are getting controversial by putting the Beatles' White Album in here. But not that controversial. Because the sleeve is rubbish Photograph: Public Domain
Album sleeves: Oxymoron, Feed the Breed
Here's Oxymoron's Feed the Breed. Would type more but my eyes have done the decent thing and self-combusted while captioning this gallery Photograph: Public Domain
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